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How to I use MS Outlook Express on my protected network to connect to an external pop3 server?

April 26, 2017Connect Express external MS Network outlook pop3 protected server

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How to I use MS Outlook Express on my protected network to connect to an external pop3 server?

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Outlook express uses SMTP for outgoing mail and pop3 for incoming mail. Smwrap will handle the outgoing mail transparently without modification. Aproxy will have to be configured to pass pop3 data to the external server. First check that /etc/services has a definition for pop3. If not, insert “pop3 110/tcp”. Second, edit /etc/portus/aproxy.conf file and insert, before the “deny” lines: “permit from to pop3 redirect pop3″ Third, refresh aproxy using the refresh_aproxy command found in the /usr/local/etc directory. Now, the firewall is ready to handle the pop3 requests. In Outlook Express, under tools/accounts/mail/properties set the servers settings for pop3 and smtp to the firewall internal ip address. It is also very important to set the general setting for the repley address to be the address of the pop3 account. Since SMWrap will scrub the from: address, you will not be able to receive replys unless the reply: address is set cor